Fastest-Growing AI Agents This Week, Oct 12–18, 2026
Which AI agents gained and lost the most downloads and GitHub stars in the week of Oct 12–18, 2026, from public package and GitHub data.
QwenPaw recorded the largest weekly download increase in the data, at +1018% to 40.8K downloads over 7 days. MCP for Blender (formerly BlenderMCP) followed at +167% with 595K, and Browser Harness gained +64% with 2.4M.
Botpress had the steepest decline at -65% (7,448 downloads), ahead of Graphite at -64%. Context7 fell -58% but still logged 483K downloads. On GitHub, Orca added 9,223 stars in seven days, followed by Xerj with 8,364 and DeepSeek Harness with 7,821.
Fastest-growing downloads
Package downloads (npm and PyPI) over the last 7 days against the 7 days before. Only agents with at least 5,000 weekly downloads are included.
| Agent | Downloads, 7 days | Change |
|---|---|---|
| QwenPaw | 40.8K | +1018% |
| MCP for Blender (formerly BlenderMCP) | 595K | +167% |
| PolyAI | 11.5K | +93% |
| Browser Harness | 2.4M | +64% |
| nanobot | 31.5K | +59% |
| AgentScope | 47.3K | +55% |
| mini-SWE-agent | 4.7M | +40% |
| openJiuwen | 6,545 | +37% |
| HolmesGPT | 6,176 | +37% |
| Memori | 5,110 | +33% |
Biggest declines
| Agent | Downloads, 7 days | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Botpress | 7,448 | -65% |
| Graphite | 24.3K | -64% |
| AgentKit by Inngest | 14.1K | -63% |
| Greptile | 12.1K | -63% |
| Context7 | 483K | -58% |
Most new GitHub stars
| Agent | New stars, 7 days | Total stars |
|---|---|---|
| Orca | 9,223 | 102K |
| Xerj | 8,364 | 12.9K |
| DeepSeek Harness | 7,821 | 257K |
| Anatomy | 7,504 | 18.7K |
| ECC | 6,652 | 286K |
| OpenCode | 6,563 | 220K |
| Solidcraft | 6,503 | 8,986 |
| HyperFrames | 5,600 | 69.4K |
| Graphify | 5,525 | 132K |
| Ruflo | 3,671 | 78.3K |
How to read this
Downloads include CI pipelines and bots, so they track tooling rather than people, and a single release can cause a spike. Figures are as of October 22, 2026. The live version of these lists is on the movers page; the full method is on methodology.
Agents in this report, today
| # | Agent | Gid Score | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | Stars | Latest release | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 |
QwenPawAgentScope team (Alibaba) |
42 | 7,926 | up 10.6% | up 166.5% | 37.2K+118/day | 2.2.2.post112d ago | ||||
| 1 |
MCP for Blender (formerly BlenderMCP)Siddharth Ahuja |
55 | 572K | down 41.2% | — | 33.1K+100/day | — | ||||
| 122 |
PolyAIPolyAI |
35 | 7,189 | down 11.7% | up 49.4% | — | — | ||||
| 18 |
|
57 | 3.4M | up 83.4% | up 45.0% | 18.8K+28/day | 0.1.132mo ago | ||||
| 46 |
nanobotHKUDS |
49 | 22.4K | up 19.1% | up 99.5% | 49.8K+53/day | 0.4.06d ago | ||||
| 36 |
OrcaStably |
52 | — | — | — | 114K+957/day | 1.4.247today | ||||
| 13 |
|
52 | — | — | — | 18.8K+304/day | — | ||||
| 12 |
|
62 | 765K | up 27.6% | up 11.7% | 270K+1,060/day | — | ||||
| No agents match that filter. | |||||||||||
